Earlier this season I wrote that Saban was holding his cards close to his vest as far of play calling goes. He hasn’t shown his defensive stunts and aside from one trick play last week after Tua was injured and Alabama scored on a wildcat pass, they haven’t shown anything but vanilla offense for most of the season.
There were many who thought that Alabama may need to do some tricks to get the offense going against Arkansas with a first time starting quarterback. But that was not the case. Alabama continued to run its vanilla offense, not asking Jones to do too much, relying on his running backs and his star receivers to be the stars they are and simply put the ball in their hands and let them do the rest.